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Midland Road leeds bull on Google Earth

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Not sure if this has been covered before. What is the Bull shown on Google Earth at Midland Road Depot in Leeds?
 

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As far as I can work out, it's the crane at the aforementioned depot. It's just the way that Google Earth has rendered it.
Here's the view of the same depot on Google Maps.
 
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Correct. Google Earth tries to predict what an object is based on 2D images, and then places a 3D model of the closest matching object there.

The train present there may have affected the program's guessing of what it was.
 
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